Parade of Lights

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2025 Parade of LightsFloats decorated with lights parade through downtown Fairfield
Saturday, Nov. 22 at Village Green Park & Fairfield Community Arts Center

Inside Activities:
5-6 pm: Children's Craft, CAC Children's Room
5-7 pm: Festival of Trees Opening, CAC Art Gallery, & Giving Tree Tag Handout, CAC Lobby

Outside Activities:
5-7 pm: Food Trucks & Holiday Market
5-6:30 pm: Meet local raptor species with RAPTOR, Inc. on the Village Green Amphitheatre 
6 pm: Fairfield STARZ Dance performance on the Wessel Dr. stage

Parade: Steps off from Waterworks Park at 6pm and ends at Village Green Park
NEW: People's Choice Award, as voted on by spectators. 
Tree Lighting & Fireworks: Village Green Park following the parade.

Food Trucks: Amaizing Grace Kettle Corn, Dine-In Hawaiian, Quad Que BBQ, Smore Fun, Travelin' Tom's Coffee 
Holiday Market Vendors: The Cookie Box, Fancy Cake Pop, NubianLuxx, Sugar Thorn Sweet

2025 Parade Route:

  • Parade steps off from Waterworks Park at 6pm
  • Parade heads South on Groh Ln. 
  • Turn left (East) onto River Rd./Nilles Rd.
  • Turn right (South) on Wessel Dr.
  • Parade ends at Village Green Park



2025 Parade of Lights Participants

2025 Community Entry Champion: Fairfield Girl Scouts
2025 City Entry Champion: Public Utilities
2025 People's Choice: Fairfield Girl Scouts

All About Kids
Cincinnati Cougars Women's Pro Tackle Football Team
Cincinnati Ghostbusters
City of Fairfield Fairfield Fire Department
City of Fairfield Manager's Office
City of Fairfield Parks and Recreation
City of Fairfield Police Department
City of Fairfield Public Utilities
City of Fairfield Public Works
Creative Beginnings Learning Center
CrossFit Fairfield/Community Fitness Lab

Empire Rising/ Empire Prestige Academy
Fairfield Chamber of Commerce
Fairfield Church of the Nazarene
Fairfield Girl Scouts
Fairfield Pizza and Pasta
Fairfield Resident Nick Kuhns
Gateway Springs Health Campus
The Hayden & Crue Project
Honda of Fairfield
LadyFameRidersMC
The Mane Attraction of the Off Duty Butler County Mounted Patrol 
Main Event

McCane Construction
Mellisa Vasquez State Farm
Miss Black Ohio USA
No Wake Marine
Path Behavioral Health
Pure BeYOUtiful Med Spa
STAR 93.3
T&F Towing and Recovery and VFW
Trail Life OH 10:31
Uptown Orthodontics
Westside Lowriders

Past Parade Float Champions

Community Entry Champions
  • BHI General Contracting, 2024
  • BHI General Contracting, 2023
  • BHI General Contracting, 2022
  • Fairfield City Schools, 2021
  • Fairfield City Schools, 2020
  • Exquisite Lawn Care Services, 2019
City Department Champions
  • Fairfield Parks & Recreation, 2024
  • Fairfield Parks & Recreation, 2023
  • Fairfield Parks & Recreation, 2022
  • Fairfield Police Department, 2021
  • Fairfield Public Utilities, 2020
  • Fairfield Parks & Recreation, 2019